Clothes-drying frame.



E. R. GRBINER.

CLOTHES DBYING FRAME.

PPLIO-ATION FILED JULY 23,1910.

Patented oct; 25,1910. f

, l lu/vanto@ Ezyeiw Il 'rezlr'zver EUGENE RICHARD GREINER, OF BRANTFORD, ONTARIO, CANADA.

CLOTHES-DRYING FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 25, 1910.

Application filedy July 23, 1910. Serial No. 573,494.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EUGENE R101-IARD GREINER, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at Brantford, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Drying Frames, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes drying frames and more particularly to the type to be suspended from a supporting wire.

One object of the invention is the provision of a clothes drying frame provided at its opposite ends with hooks adapted to engage a supporting wire and interlock with adjacent hooks of another supporting frame, thus preventing endwise movement of the clothes supporting frames relative to each other.

A further object is the provision of a clothes drying frame provided with a hook, the bill of which is curved to bear on the shank of the hook so that when the hook is in engagement with the supporting wire and the frame swings, the danger of the frame becoming disengaged from the supporting wire will be positively prevented.

Iith these and other objects in view, which will more fully hereinafter appear, the present invention consists in certain novel details of construction and arrangement of parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claim; it being understood that various changes in the form, proportion, size, and minor details of the device may be made, within the scope of the appended claim, 'without departing from the spirit or sacrificing anyof the advantages of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the specification ;-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device in operative position. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail perspective of one end portion of the clothes supporting frame.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to designate corresponding parts throughout.

The supporting wire is designated by the numeral 5, its opposite ends being secured to posts, not shown. IVhile I have shown the device connected with such a supporting wire, still it must be understood that I am not to be limited to this specific employment, since it will be obvious, from what will appear later, how the device might be equally as well connected with an endless rope such as is usually employed to suspend clothes between a pole and a building.

The device forming part of the subject matter of the present invention comprises a clothes supporting frame including a pair of parallel side wires designated by the numerals 6 and 7. The side wires 6 and 7 maybe of any desired length and at their opposite ends terminate in end wires 8 and 9. The end wires 8 and 9 are unequal in length and bent upwardly, and as shown in the drawings incline toward each other. The end wires 8 and 9 are twisted one around the other for portions of their lengths, as shown at 10. The longer of said end wires, at a point beyond the twist 10 is directed vertically upward for a portion of its length to provide what will subsequently be termed a shank 11. The shank 11 is in alinement with the longitudinal median line of the frame and terminates in an outwardly and inwardly curved hook, the side of which is designated by the numeral 12 and the bill of which is designated by the numeral 13. The side 12 curves in a direction opposite to the bill 13, and the free end portion of the latter is curved outwardly, as shown at 14 and bears on the shank 11. Vith this construction it will be manifestthat in order to move the'hook into engagement with an object such as the line 5 the bill 13 must yield outwardly, and after the line has passed the outwardly curved portion let of the bill and is arranged in the space between the latter and side 12, the curved portion 14 bearing on the shank 11 will prevent disengagement between the hook and line when the frame and its contents are swung by the wind.

It will be seen now by reference to the drawings that the space bounded by the side 12 and bill 13 is suicient to loosely receive the supporting wire 5 and it will be further observed, when one of the supporting frames is suspended from the wire 5 that the hook at one end thereof may be snapped into engagement with the side of a hook of an adjacent supporting frame and the last-named hook snapped into engagement with the supporting wire 5. Vith this construction it` will be manifest that the hooks will be interlocked, whereby endwise movement of the supporting frames relative to each other will be positively prevented.

From the foregoing, it is evident that I have provided a device which is comparatively simple in structure and inexpensive in manufacture, embodying few parts and these so ar 'anged that the danger of derangement will be reduced to a minimum.

I claim:-

A device of the class described, comprising a -clothes supporting frame including parallel side wires terminating at their opposite ends in upwardly bent end wires of unequal lengths, the said end wires inelining toward each other and twisted one around the other for portions of their lengths, the .longer of each of said end wires at a point beyond the twist having a straight portion constituting a shank alinmg with the longitudinal median line of the frame, the said shank terminating in a laterally curved hook, the end portion of the bill of which curves outwardly and bears on the said shank, the space bounded by the side and bill of said hook being suiiicient to loosely receive a supporting wire and the side portion of a hook of an adjacent clothes supporting f "ame,

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JESSIE IVEDLAKE. 

